Chrissy Metz Responds to Reports That She Called Alison Brie a 'B*tch' at the Golden Globes

A hot mic loose on tonight's Golden Globes red carpet seemed to catch This Is Us star Chrissy Metz in an awkward moment. At the end of her interview on the Facebook Live preshow, Metz was asked to help introduce Alison Brie. (The GLOW actress was about to be interviewed elsewhere on the carpet.) But it, uh, didn't go quite as planned.

"Do you know a girl named Alison Brie?" one of the cohosts asked Metz. "Do I?" she replied. When the camera panned to focus on Brie, some close listeners seemed to hear Metz add, "She's such a bitch." The Internet, of course, soon took notice:

Brie hasn't publicly responded to the moment, though Vanity Fair writer and reporter Nicole Sperling reports that she asked Brie about it. "Just asked Alison Brie about this," she wrote on Twitter. "She had not heard about Metz’s comments and seemed very confused by the entire matter. 'But why?' she asked. 'I know her. I saw her on the carpet and I told her how beautiful she looked.'"

But while fans and tabloids dissected the clip, Metz took to Twitter to address the moment—and shut it down. "It’s terribly unfortunate anyone would think much less run a story that was completely fabricated! I adore Alison and would never say a bad word about her, or anyone!" she wrote in a retweet of an Us Weekly article about the incident. "I sure hope she knows my heart."

Several of Metz's friends and fans also took to social media to defend Metz. "Folks, I’ve known @ChrissyMetz for three years and I have NEVER heard her say a mean word about anyone. Move on," director and producer Ken Olin wrote.